Hi Guido, On 23 February 2011 16:52, Guido Berhoerster <g...@openindiana.org> wrote:
> * Matthew Wilby <mwi...@gmail.com> [2011-02-23 16:13]: > > Hi Ken, > > > > On 23 February 2011 14:33, ken mays <maybird1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > Matt, > > > > > > See Jon Tibble and Martin Bochnig for more extendibility. > > > > > > > I have no idea who Martin Bochnig is. In one of the OI meetings I asked > how > > many people were looking at SPARC and the impression was that it was only > > Meths (Jon) and myself afaik. > > Martin Bochnig once created http://www.martux.org/ and worked on > SPARC Xorg drivers, he has no involvement with the OI project. > > > > > > > > Create SPARC distro fundamentally based on oi_148a (02/23/11) ISO. > > > > > > > I've already done an Illumos build mirroring x86, same as what is in > > oi_148a. I've stopped, because I don't want to end up spending a huge > amount > > of time producing something that won't be used. > > You need to decide for yourself if it is worth your time but > judging by the mailing lists there seems to be at least some > demand for it. If you want to get an estimate you might want to > survey on oi-discuss since there will be more potential end-users > there and actually just today somebody was asking for the state > of SPARC support. > > Thanks for the feedback. What I was trying to avoid was going off and doing "my own thing" by getting the general consensus on where to take SPARC support. Starting a conversation on this mailing list made sense. Starting a conversation on oi-discuss is a good idea. I was going to do this anyhow, so will type something later tonight. Matt
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